A national park will be revived with a Heritage Lottery grant of almost £1m.

The Northumberland National Park Authority will now be able to run a five-year traditional skills project to restore its original boundaries.

The £989,000 will help increase conservation skills among the local community, with 125 volunteers being recruited and trained to identify key traditional boundaries in need of conservation. Made-up of predominately dry stone walls the boundaries are also of significant historic importance, revealing details of land-use in centuries gone by.